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View the Annual Report Cultivating awareness, living mindfully, enhancing resilience Our fnancial and volunteer data Our fnancial By The Numbers Our amazing achievements Highlights A welcome from Fiona Jensen & Executive Director Message From Our Founder A and what we do Who we are, Our Mission An update on our year From The Program Department Map showing the schools using Calmer Choice Helping The Cape Hear one of our many inspiring stories Story Isaiah’s People who have helped our mission Speaker Series Who we are Directors & Staff how you can help Learn Give To Ways People who have helped Calmer Choice Donors Thanking our many supporters Additional Thanks 1 | CALMER CHOICE ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Message from our Executive Director Dear Friends, This past school year has been full of amazing growth and refection for both myself as the Executive Director, and for the Calmer Choice organization itself. With all we have walked through, our small, local, grassroots organization that started in 2010 as a response and outreach to a community in crisis on Cape Cod has grown to be an organization, now recognized around the country. What an incredible journey, one that I could never have predicted. With such a dedicated team who have put their hearts, knowledge, time and energy into Calmer Choice, I feel blessed and see that anything is possible. Ofering young people a toolbox to deal with life’s uncertainties including stress, anxiety and self-destructive behaviors is crucial in today’s ever changing complex world. Today we humans process as much information in a week as our ancestors did in their entire lifetime 100 years ago. It is no wonder we need to fnd ways to safely and efectively manage all of it! Calmer Choice’s success is a direct result of our ever expanding network of supportive, devoted and passionate community members and staf. I am in awe every day as I see our dedicated staf and community rally around Calmer Choice and create a place where young people feel valued, appreciated and supported. I want to thank our Board of Directors for their ongoing leadership and dedication, our donors for their unwavering support, our staf for their amazing commitment and enthusiasm, our volunteers for their endless loyalty, and all the school staf, students and families for whom we have so much respect and admiration. We couldn’t do this without YOU! Thank you so very much! I look forward to an incredible 2016- 2017 school year with all of you! With tremendous love and respect to all of you, Fiona Jensen, OTR/L CALMER CHOICE ANNUAL REPORT 2015 | 2 Our Mission Calmer Choice is a universal prevention program committed to teaching young people how to efectively and safely manage stress and resolve confict so that they live happy, healthy and successful lives. Our goal is to provide skills that will diminish the risk of violence, substance abuse, and other self-destructive behaviors. Our Vision Calmer Choice envisions a world in which young people lead lives of kindness and compassion towards themselves and others. Mindful Awareness Mindful Awareness is paying attention in a particular way, on purpose, to what is happening right now, both internally and externally, with kindness and curiosity towards ourselves and others. “I have seen frst-hand the positive impact of this program in creating a calmer, more centered youth culture.” -Christina Bologna, volunteer and community member 3 | CALMER CHOICE ANNUAL REPORT 2015 From the Program Department Life in the Program Department was and is both a work-in progress and work-of progress! We are continually creating, researching, writing, teaching, learning, sharing, supporting, scheduling, attending conferences and going on speaking engagements. The to-do list is never quite done. Yet it is important to stop, put the list aside for a moment, refect, breathe and take a look at some of the highlights from the 2015-2016 school year! The last year we completed our 8 week sessions in Year-end celebration party for instructors 15 schools across Cape Cod! In addition to our local programming, we had the opportunity and honor to teach an extended version of the Calmer Choice program to the Boston Collegiate Charter School in Dorchester. This collaboration included being involved with the amazing Dr. John Gabrielli with his research lab at MIT and the Harvard School of Education. It was such an honor and privilege to be part of this research. With 12 new lesson plans, we traveled to Dorchester 4 days a week for 2 months to teach Calmer Choice curriculum to the students. It was an immense undertaking for our already full plates, but the students surely touched our hearts and we defnitely gained a wealth of knowledge! In the spring of 2016 we fnally fulflled the requests for an after school program. It was a pilot program at the Centerville Library and ran for 6 weeks for elementary school-age children. The response from children and parents was tremendously positive. The requests for future after-school programs grows daily and we hope to be able to ofer more down the road. At the completion of the sessions the Calmer Choice instructors are always amazed at the responses from students, the thank you cards, the hugs, the stories, and the parents, teachers and principals who thank us. It is truly touching and inspiring. We get to see that the simple skills we teach are meaningful in their lives. Whether it’s better focus and attention, the ability to fall asleep easier at night, calm themselves, taking on another’s perspective, or being gentler and kinder to themselves/others (even their siblings!), it’s remarkable to hear and see the impact. We have an extraordinary Calmer Choice team, an amazing bunch of fexible, dedicated, caring individuals. Thank you to our dedicated group of volunteers who come out of the woodwork to help, along with the stellar Board of Directors who roll up their sleeves and work so hard to support and advise Calmer Choice. We defnitely couldn’t do any of this without you! We are looking forward to kicking of another wonderful school year in 2016-2017! Back to the to-do list! Instructors Apprentices School-Based Sally Burke Marge Gramm Calmer Choice Stephanie Goley Forest Malatesta Instructors Bob Jensen Sasa Relic Christakis Alison Graham Poppy Kennedy Ronda Sigel Monica Jalbert Caroline McCutcheon Krishna Sprinkle Greta McCue Jennifer Perrin Linda Whittlesley Meg Morrison Patty Weinstein Laurie Richardson Zoe Wolf CALMER CHOICE ANNUAL REPORT 2015 | 4 1. Boston Collegiate Charter School 13. Mattacheese Middle School 2. Morse Pond School 14. Ezra H. Baker Elementary School 3. Quashnet Elementary School 15. Nathaniel H. Wixon Innovation School 4. Teachers at the Waldorf School of Cape Cod 16. Cape Cod Regional Technical High School 5. Hyannis West Elementary School 17. Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School 6. St. Peters Nursey School 18. Stony Brook Elementary School 7. Barnstable West Barnstable Elementary School 19. Chatham Elementary School 8. Barnstable Community Horace Mann Charter School 20. Chatham Middle School 9. Sturgis Charter Public School 21. Orleans Elementary School 10. Barnstable High School 22. Nauset Regional Middle School 11. Marguerite E. Small Elementary School 23. Provincetown Schools 12. Station Avenue Elementary School 5 | CALMER CHOICE ANNUAL REPORT 2015 How many of us know of a 3rd grader who has the ability to regulate his challenging emotions so well that when he encounters a bully at school, he can process the experience and then feel compassion and empathy for the intimidator? Not many. This was Isaiah’s frst reaction when faced with this situation at school. The reason he gives for his response, “I learned this during Calmer Choice.” Empathy, which seems to be lacking more and more in our society, is an integral part of the Calmer Choice curriculum. As Isaiah describes, “Our teacher showed us a picture of a horse but if you turned it around it was a frog too. It was really good to learn that people have diferent perspectives in life. Maybe the boy who was bullying me has a hard time at home or was having a bad day.” The perspective lesson gives students the opportunity to explore what happens in disagreements and arguments. Through engaged activities and stories, students learn that there are many ways to view a situation and that arguments usually occur when we think our way is the only way. In addition to his understanding of perspective, Calmer Choice helped Isaiah understand emotions and steps to working with challenging emotions. “Although I was upset at what the boy had said to me, I understand that when you get angry the amygdala in your brain starts fring and this shuts down your pre-frontal cortex. I learned that when I feel angry, I can stop, notice that my amygdala is fring and take deep breaths, this helps my amygdala settle down, so that I can think and make choices from my pre-frontal cortex and fgure out a way to deal with the situation.” Through the Calmer Choice program, Isaiah has learned the invaluable gift of compassion and empathy as well as a way to deal with his emotions in a stressful situation. Isaiah’s emotional and social toolbox has grown to include skills that are crucial in a world of increased cyber bullying, anxiety and stress. CALMER CHOICE ANNUAL REPORT 2015 | 6 number of number of value volunteers hours of time in in 2015-2016 donated thousands Ice Cream Social at Cape Cod of dollars Lighthouse Charter School May 2016 7 | CALMER CHOICE ANNUAL REPORT 2015 Organizational Created and funded 4 full time and one part time staf positions in order to manage increased growth.
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